Leaks happen all the time... what's rarer is the leaker doing something to get caught (forwarding the message directly from their corporate email account, sending the text over a company monitored connection, etc.) There are plenty of ways to avoid this... copy paste an a thumb drive for example.
On Google's part, there's a difference between not launching an apple-style SS investigation into a leak and using police to enter and search private residences (evil) and a firing flagrant leaker who either doesn't care enough to hide what he's doing or is too stupid to hide it. Especially at Google where you basically have to qualify for MENSA membership to get a job I'd imagine the 'Googler' that did this clearly knew what he was doing and just didn't care.
_POSSIBLY_ you could be dealing with a case of hubris, but if you're telling everyone you leaked you're just asking for it.
While I love fluorescent bulbs and use them in over 95 percent of my house there are still some purposes that fluorescent can't fulfill. From a decorative sense small incandescent bulbs do have the ability to look like candles (at least a heck of a lot more than fluorescents) and what would happen to Susie's Easy Bake oven?
Legislation isn't the answer, education is. I don't even think California would pass a law banning unnecessarily large vehicles even though it's quite obvious a lot of gas can be saved an emissions reduced. Through education incandescent bulbs will become a luxury just like gas-guzzling cars, boats, and planes (though on a slightly smaller scale).
The New York Times even did a write up on bugmenot.com when it was first gaining steam, and even then bugmenot used the NY times website as their example.
What does annoy me though is when people go and post on boards etc. with bug me not accounts. But I won't rant
See... this guy was smart... at some point he realized that bureaucracy was just stupid and that no one would care (in a negative sense at least) if he told authorities where the Kim's were.
In such a litigious society we tend to forget this concept and worry about the process.
P.S. I'm not voting for chaos, and there's still a difference between this and the 'emergency' wiretaps but sometimes there shouldn't need to be a "process" for individual events... if it's obvious, just do it!
Who cares if TD is giving validity to piracy... until I know they would be the judge at my RIAA case I don't care what they think... it doesn't affect me!
They probably have (or... even "worse", are working on) a contract with someone like Wayport to offer pay-per-use in specified areas concentrated around retail/food courts like ATL... As soon as Continental's coverage is spread enough that anyone can get on while staying within a few thousand feet of their gate any contract like this goes right out the window. I don't know, I've only flown into/out of BOS once and we were back in the boonies of a terminal because we were on an "express" flight (the only thing that happens faster is the back-ache form the small planes) form Cleveland.
P.S./Just out of curiosity: Is BOS really a Continental hub? They already have Newark, Cleveland, and Chicago (though if the Delta merger goes though we'll probably loose our hub :( and then be the only city to suck at EVERYTHING... sports, obesity, stress, poverty, politics, you name it... Cleveland sucks at it)
If we just let everyone who smoked die from lug diseases people wouldn't smoke. If we didn't have liposuction and gastric bypass surgery people wouldn't eat as much. Medicine is being an enabler to the disgusting lifestyles of Americans. Sure... they won't live as long... but with medicine that difference is down to no more than 10 years (and even that's being generous).
Besides... what do you care? they're going to be in your office/hospital/practice more than anyone else and paying you. It's their money their body... if they want to squander away their life's work and earnings to keep themselves alive because they don't want to stop eating its up to them.
I agree its terrible but judging by the trends in society and government's policies Americans are not only very insecure but we are very arrogant and expect everything to adapt to us. (can anyone say metric system?) We're going to keep on doing what we do and make everything else fix it for us... including our personal health.
In conclusion/summary: It's a capitalist market... these people are willing to pay extra for health costs to maintain their lifestyle and companies are more than willing to make money off of this market. It's better than communism... you don't have enough food to make your self obese.
In terms of cancer prevention means correcting genetic errors that already exist so that the deadly combinations can never be formed. The only true prevention we have in medicine is the elimination of various diseases such as small pox. We've literally killed it, and that's the only disease that is "prevented". Vaccines come close, but even then that's technically treating the disease before the actual malignant viruss attack the body. With the vaccine the body still believes it is being attacked and is "treating" against the vaccine (which, by the duck test, is the virus except that it doesn't have any genetic material to cause ailments) so that it's ready for the real virus. Screening programs are still treatment, It's just that you treat the ailment before it is a threat and/or symptoms arise.
I may be a tech type but there are 3 RN's 2 LNHA's and a Doctor in the family... don't go telling me I don't know anything about medicine.
By the way... nice projection (don't be ignorant, look it up. Hint: You're looking for the psychological term which is used in literature analysis.)
As much as I hate apple I can't help noticing that this guy didn't even flinch when Creative commanded the entire MP3 player market (granted it was a niche) for almost 5 years before the iPod came out. Apparently their profits weren't enough to sue about?
The real reason to fire the leaker
Leaks happen all the time... what's rarer is the leaker doing something to get caught (forwarding the message directly from their corporate email account, sending the text over a company monitored connection, etc.) There are plenty of ways to avoid this... copy paste an a thumb drive for example.
On Google's part, there's a difference between not launching an apple-style SS investigation into a leak and using police to enter and search private residences (evil) and a firing flagrant leaker who either doesn't care enough to hide what he's doing or is too stupid to hide it. Especially at Google where you basically have to qualify for MENSA membership to get a job I'd imagine the 'Googler' that did this clearly knew what he was doing and just didn't care.
_POSSIBLY_ you could be dealing with a case of hubris, but if you're telling everyone you leaked you're just asking for it.
Re:
Hulu Mirror for those who can get to it.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/184819/the-simpsons-banksy-opening
Re: Wait... GAO? (Sorry)
*you're
sorry it's too early to start posting
Wait... GAO?
"Government Accountability"...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
Oh wait, your serious?
Not really the right idea
While I love fluorescent bulbs and use them in over 95 percent of my house there are still some purposes that fluorescent can't fulfill. From a decorative sense small incandescent bulbs do have the ability to look like candles (at least a heck of a lot more than fluorescents) and what would happen to Susie's Easy Bake oven?
Legislation isn't the answer, education is. I don't even think California would pass a law banning unnecessarily large vehicles even though it's quite obvious a lot of gas can be saved an emissions reduced. Through education incandescent bulbs will become a luxury just like gas-guzzling cars, boats, and planes (though on a slightly smaller scale).
Why do they even bother?
The New York Times even did a write up on bugmenot.com when it was first gaining steam, and even then bugmenot used the NY times website as their example.
What does annoy me though is when people go and post on boards etc. with bug me not accounts. But I won't rant
%@)#&^!@(& Bureaucracy
See... this guy was smart... at some point he realized that bureaucracy was just stupid and that no one would care (in a negative sense at least) if he told authorities where the Kim's were.
In such a litigious society we tend to forget this concept and worry about the process.
P.S. I'm not voting for chaos, and there's still a difference between this and the 'emergency' wiretaps but sometimes there shouldn't need to be a "process" for individual events... if it's obvious, just do it!
Re: Duh!
YAH!!!!
DARE TO BE CORNY!
love the pun... (and the article)
p.s. good job on first post ;-)
Who cares? (as Duh!)
Who cares if TD is giving validity to piracy... until I know they would be the judge at my RIAA case I don't care what they think... it doesn't affect me!
Re: Why does this not surprise me.....
They probably have (or... even "worse", are working on) a contract with someone like Wayport to offer pay-per-use in specified areas concentrated around retail/food courts like ATL... As soon as Continental's coverage is spread enough that anyone can get on while staying within a few thousand feet of their gate any contract like this goes right out the window. I don't know, I've only flown into/out of BOS once and we were back in the boonies of a terminal because we were on an "express" flight (the only thing that happens faster is the back-ache form the small planes) form Cleveland.
P.S./Just out of curiosity: Is BOS really a Continental hub? They already have Newark, Cleveland, and Chicago (though if the Delta merger goes though we'll probably loose our hub :( and then be the only city to suck at EVERYTHING... sports, obesity, stress, poverty, politics, you name it... Cleveland sucks at it)
Re: Way to completely miss the real issues
Actually... that's medicine's fault...
If we just let everyone who smoked die from lug diseases people wouldn't smoke. If we didn't have liposuction and gastric bypass surgery people wouldn't eat as much. Medicine is being an enabler to the disgusting lifestyles of Americans. Sure... they won't live as long... but with medicine that difference is down to no more than 10 years (and even that's being generous).
Besides... what do you care? they're going to be in your office/hospital/practice more than anyone else and paying you. It's their money their body... if they want to squander away their life's work and earnings to keep themselves alive because they don't want to stop eating its up to them.
I agree its terrible but judging by the trends in society and government's policies Americans are not only very insecure but we are very arrogant and expect everything to adapt to us. (can anyone say metric system?) We're going to keep on doing what we do and make everything else fix it for us... including our personal health.
In conclusion/summary: It's a capitalist market... these people are willing to pay extra for health costs to maintain their lifestyle and companies are more than willing to make money off of this market. It's better than communism... you don't have enough food to make your self obese.
Re: The Power of Ignorance
Except that that isn't prevention?
In terms of cancer prevention means correcting genetic errors that already exist so that the deadly combinations can never be formed. The only true prevention we have in medicine is the elimination of various diseases such as small pox. We've literally killed it, and that's the only disease that is "prevented". Vaccines come close, but even then that's technically treating the disease before the actual malignant viruss attack the body. With the vaccine the body still believes it is being attacked and is "treating" against the vaccine (which, by the duck test, is the virus except that it doesn't have any genetic material to cause ailments) so that it's ready for the real virus. Screening programs are still treatment, It's just that you treat the ailment before it is a threat and/or symptoms arise.
I may be a tech type but there are 3 RN's 2 LNHA's and a Doctor in the family... don't go telling me I don't know anything about medicine.
By the way... nice projection (don't be ignorant, look it up. Hint: You're looking for the psychological term which is used in literature analysis.)
On second thoughts... http://www.heretical.com/sexsci/bpsychol.html
Scroll down... sections 2a and 2b (mostly 2a)
To Mike/Tech Dirt: Great post... I've definitely got some reading to do now!
Re: (as WTO605)
So true... Continental hasn't let anyone plug in their battery for a while now... (of course very few people ever use them anyway)
Why Apple (as WTO605)
As much as I hate apple I can't help noticing that this guy didn't even flinch when Creative commanded the entire MP3 player market (granted it was a niche) for almost 5 years before the iPod came out. Apparently their profits weren't enough to sue about?